Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-25
OPINIONS OF SENATORS.
Mr. Edmunds Says Lamar Will be Con.
frmed-WiIl Anarchy be Debated IN
the Next Senate?
Views of Some of the Leading Senators on
the Exclusion Of Anarchists from
The Country.
oecial Correspondence of the eszette

! several papers east and west the an
nouncement that Senator Eimunds OF
Vermont had said that the Senate would
refuse to confirm Lamar SIS d Supreme
! Judge on the ground that he was Con-
federate colonel, and therefore violstoI
OF the osth he had once taken to support
the Cons hutton of the United States, ]
called on the Senator this morning. He
was evidently surprised to hesr the re
port, but he simply remarked, al have
| said no such thing. l have thought no
such thing. know of no such intention
on the part of anybody"
| Senator Edmunds declined to say what
would be done to cut down the surplus,
but it is said that he has no confidence in
the success Of any compromise measure
aud that he is already preparing speech
advocating continued high tariff and
insisting t1at there saall be d.minution
OF Internal revenue only.
called on Senator Plat Of Connecticut
and asked him about the statement con-
corning the probable rejection by the
Senate Of Secretary LamSr's nomination
to the Supreme bench. He said:
"Nothing could be more improbable or
preposterous. There is, think, nobody
in the Senate who would now object to
Mr.. Lamar for any such reason. The war
was a bad one, but it is over, and
the Senate might as well object to can
didGte because his grandfather was q
Tory in the Revolution. The Republican
party will certainly not place itself in thu
attitude OF fighting the war over again on
the old issues. l might of course wish
fha- - 4 \
perience at the bar and was familiar with
the decisions OF the last ten years, as
Garland is, for instance; but he mas
Judicial and thoughtful mind, and might
make tine Judge. At any rate, that is
the Presidents lookout, not ours"
| asked natOr Platt if the Senate was
likely to take any action looking towards
preventing anarchists from coming to this
country.
"It is not very likely" he said. "There
has been some talk in that direction, but
do not see how law can well be
framed that will cover the case. 1t would
be practically impossible for our cO1suls
to know enough about emigrants to en-
able them to give certificates of charac-
ter. Every state and city has ample law
TO enable il TO control anarchists, and
they ought to be prevented from making
inceudiary appeals and calling upon au-
dienCes TO resist courts and slsy police
men. To insugste crowd to murder is
not to exercise free speech, but TO COM
nit crime. This is the place to draw the
lire, and it will probably be drawn
more rigidly hereafter, especially in all
large cities whtre the 'mouth-men' con-
gregste."
Senator Evarts came yesterday and
moved st once into the mammoth double
house, corner of K and Sixteenth streets.
l called this morning snd found him look
ing little thinner than ususl, if posi-
bic, but cheerful and busy preparing for
the session. l asked him about Utsh's
chances.
"She hasn't any that know Of" said
Mr.. Eyarts." - have yet to hear of
anybody but George Tichnor Curtis, who
wants Utah admitted as g. state on any
such terms SIS she proposes. The United
States is not suffering seriously by being
deprived of her company, and can afford
to wait. Dakota, moreover, is ready, and
has twice or thrice the population of
Utah, and Congress ought to admit her as
one state or two, as soon as her people
definitely decide what they want"
l asked New York's senior-iunior sena-
tor what he thought of the postal tele-
graph scheme1l
81 don't particularly care to do any
blowing with any of Mr.. Edmunds' heif-
ers," he said with what was meant to
pass for laugh. "The postal telegraph
is his scheme. He thinks the government
ought to run telegraph as an auxiliary
OF postCffices, messages and mails being
by the same set of hands. II
would require careful organic ition and
to make it succeed. And it
may thus be benefit. 1 90 not feel like
committing myself, here and now, on the
subject. The Senate is the place to dis
cuss it and decide it, and l think 1 will
postpone it till them
Judge Chapman, new Representative
from Michigan, is early on the ground, |
and 1 was presented to him at Wizards. |
asked him about anarchists, and what
was to be done with them. He seemed |
relieved that the five Chicago dynamite |
were dead, and added: |
Undoubtedly, it is desirable to prevent |
men from coming TO this country to live |
who do not believe in law. They are !
enemies OF all social order. They inveigh |
against our institutions before they know |
what they are. Take Lipgg, for instance,
be killed himself in Chicsgo; he had been |
in this country three years. 1t will not
do to permit men TO come here to ex-
plot wild theories Of government. How
to keep such men out is the question. |
We must not destroy the safeguards of |
our liberty by severe measures framed to |
prevent others from destroying them. 1
I'm not prepared with a plan; but one |
must be found"
Congressman Breckenridge ofArkansss
said to me: eyes, this question of auar-
,hy may come up in Congress, for almost |
does. But it is not national |
issue, but only matter of police regula
ton. 1t seems to me Governor Oglesby |
has acted fairly and wisely. 1t is impos-
sible to exclude sngrchlsm. We can't |
sy an embargo upon the baggage of a
mans brain. We can't keep out opinions,
nor punish them. We can only punish |
overt acts. and making an incendiary |
speech is an overt act"
W. A CRoFFUT.